On the run for a year, man held for extorting Mumbai-based businessman

Police said Imad was arrested on June 19, 2024, along with his associates, by the Goa Police in Mumbai. However, following a brief scuffle with the police at the Mumbai airport, he managed to escape, police added.

A BCom graduate from Kurukshetra University, Yamuna Nagar, he worked as an accountant in Haryana before moving to Delhi in 2023.

“The same year, his cousin started working as a chef in a club in Delhi, which was owned by a woman. The woman introduced him to other accused — Basit, Faizan, Bhuvan, Yasir, and Salman — and told him that she knows a businessman from Mumbai, who could be extorted,” DCP (Crime) Aditya Gautam said.

On August 20, Imad, the woman and their associates went to Mapusa in Goa and booked villas in the resort where the victim was staying. Police said the accused allegedly caught the businessman in a compromising position and threatened to leak videos.

“Imad introduced himself as Inspector Imad Khan, in-charge of the IT Department of Narcotics, Delhi, and took away the victim’s mobile phone, documents, laptop and phone passwords, digital media access, wallet, etc. lmad threatened the victim that they would destroy his image and reputation in society by uploading his obscene video on social media,” DCP Gautam said.

The accused initially took Rs 20 lakh in cash from the victim and later made him transfer Rs 10 lakh more through RTGS. The complaint was filed in February 2024, said police.